Jordan and I decided we wanted to make the most of our last weekend before work began, so we headed out on a Dubai day trip. On this trip we wanted to see old Dubai and the souqs (a souq is a marketplace). We drove to one of the bigger Read more…
A great thing about living in Al Ain is that we can easily have date nights in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. During our first week in the UAE, after some meetings with the school, we decided to do just that. We made the easy drive to Abu Dhabi in about Read more…
With no obligations yet in Al Ain and a short-term rental car to get us going, Jordan and I were itching to explore. Still jet lagged, we accidentally slept 12 hours and woke up at 1 PM. We didn’t let a late start stop us and jumped into the car Read more…
When I left the Dubai airport my senses were overwhelmed with the hot sticky air and a faint scent of perfume. Welcome to my new home. The group of new arrivals loaded on school bus with all of our bags before boarding another school bus for our rides home. The Read more…
If you are wondering, yes we did include Bruges in our trip because of the 2008 Martin McDonagh movie. Jordan and I already had Belgium in our plans because I have a love for good beer. However, I would have been fine with Brussels had it not been for that Read more…
As we touched down in Schipol we could already see dozen of canals spread across the city. Jordan and I took the train from the airport to Amsterdam Centraal. The first thing we did when we got there was find a kiosk to buy a pass. We walked up to Read more…
Berlin has been on my bucket list for quite some time. One of my best friends is from Berlin and spent his summers in the US, where we met. I have always wanted to pay him a visit and I was amped up all the more by three years of Read more…
While I had traveled quite a bit domestically, it wasn’t until I was 25 that I finally got myself abroad. Sure, I had been to Mexico when I was two, but the foggy memories of dirt roads, stray dogs, and buying a Sprite with pesos in a border town didn’t Read more…
Jordan and I wanted to hit as many cities on our two-week trip as we could without completely short-changing any. Knowing that two days were already shot because of travel we settled on four cities for three days each. Our first city was Paris. We wanted to hit the highlights Read more…
When my partner, J, and I were long distance, we were really long distance. I mean 7756 miles of it. This was obviously a difficult experience, but we were both lucky enough to see each other several times through that year. Our first visit was a trip back to Wyoming Read more…